A Sunday Law.- by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 17, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 50.

A Sunday Law.—

By Editor

THE next issue will be our last till Jan. 7, 1897. The paper, according to our usual custom, will be omitted one week.

ONE church reports an accession of five members as the result of reading the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. This is good. Let the good work go on.

THE annual offering of the church at Battle Creek, Mich., to the cause of foreign missions, given during the recent prayer season, amounted to $10,300.

WE learn from the Review that Dr. Kate Lindsay, for a long time one of the leading physicians in the Battle Creek Sanitarium, will soon go to Cape Town, South Africa, to assist in starting the work in the new institution there.

MANY things have been crowded out of this number to make space for the extra lesson, and an extra extension of our Missions department. We hope that the article in that department will be read, especially by those who are in need of such help as Boulder Sanitarium can give. We feel that we are doing good missionary work in calling attention to that institution.

Our Esteemed Contemporary, the American Sentinel, begins the new year in a much improved form, and with sixteen pages, instead of eight, as hitherto. The price is unchanged, $1.00 a year. The Sentinel deserves the improvement. It needs the added space, and the people need the instruction and warnings it gives. We wish it a useful and prosperous new year. Its address is 39 Bond Street, New York City.

A Sunday Law.—

We wonder if Californians, those who boast of great liberality of mind, freedom of thought, and charity toward their fellows, want a Sunday law. Mighty efforts are already putting forth to obtain it. Christian Endeavor societies are putting forth much political endeavor to obtain it. Many will sign petitions for such a law who do not know its evils. Many even of those who are working for it do not know the evil that is in it. It is put forth as a temperance scheme, as a police regulation, etc., but behind it all is the complete union of church and state. The movement is anti-Christian, un-American, and will result in injustice and oppression. Do Californians want such a law? If they do not, it is time for lovers of freedom to arouse.

Shall It Be?—

The apostle Paul, in writing to the Corinthians of their liberality, says that their "zeal hath stirred up very many" others. We are hoping that this may be the case with the zeal of our friends in Kansas. Two months ago we were sending into Kansas 650 copies weekly of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. One week ago we were sending 1,400 copies weekly. Now the list has increased to 2,400. Will it not be that the zeal of Kansas shall stir up very many?